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[edit] Welcome to the European Feminist Forum's Affinity Group on Women and Tech Wiki!
EFF Documents and communication
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Contributions to the EFF website
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The Mailing List - Join In!
RiseUp CrabGrass group - Social Networking Site for Activists - our placeholder there....
[edit] What we want to do
.. please brainstorm, leave your favorite bookmarks and ideas!
[edit] Wiki areas to be developed
- Gender and race in cyberspace (i.e., representations of the raced and gendered body in computer-mediated communication (CMC)
- Feminist Organizing on the Internet (room for everything here from "How To" guides, to collections of resources)
- List of TechWomen, researchers, scientists and other female role models
- List of diverse women/feminist/tech Groups
- Practical Guides (aimed at helping women master various skills, from basics like blogging, to more technically demanding tasks)
I'll be adding to those pages when I can, and I hope that anyone else interested will jump in and contribute. Kali 13:59, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Unsorted
I just found the EFF's flyer: http://www.glow-boell.de/media/de/txt_rubrik_2/EFF_Flyer.pdf
reorganised a bit --Anna 16:36, 24 April 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Amsterdam 15 dec 2007 WOMEN AND TECH affinity group meeting
- What our purposes are:
Anna: I am basically surrounded by male geeks. I am really happy to come across women who can teach me, and other women take me for a geek, that is not exactly accurate. I think we can provide some kind of information/ network etc to show to the EFF participants how to get to women who can share knowledge and skills. I would also like to discuss theoretically about women and technology. These are extremely important poliutical topics: why women are excluded.
Maria: how women function in mixed, coeducative groups (I would like to interview of different women ) making the women working in tech – I would like to interview women about the work in tech
Ewa: media and technology as empowerment tools for women; alternatives towards neoliberalism; class and age in context of feminist groups
Paula: ways for women to find support for tech. Finding volunteers for the group; identifying which technologies we need&use. Look at developing trainings. Finding ways of combining my work with the eff project. Crapgrass is too difficult for non – tech women. UK-based computer . Diagram of the links that person has with other networks.
Aileen: the idea of women to network better and to be better equiped technically,. People communicate in various ways. Explore questions: what are women using and what they could use to communicate better. In terms of theory: I am interested in how feminism could be understood from the side of women&technology . Women and technology. You can have finished textxs and also the discussions between blogs and in different places.
Ruxi: I am coming to the conference from the women Indymedia side. Indy have some good tools for organising. The whole community of feminist bloggers. There is lots of important topics that are discussed, a lot of actions, new ideas and discussions happen. Am interested in how to use such tools for feminist organizing, who is blogging, how blogs are being used, are blogs important for organising, and the larger discussion of who gets to participate (in organizing, creating new media, using new technologies), who isn't and why, and how it relates to gender, what can be done, etc..
- What do we want to do?
FORM 1.panel discussion
2.workshop
3.documentation of the content
4.making use of the media space
5.adding to the library
6.syndicating existing content – already an example of tech
7.speaker on planary addressing FLOSS as part of technology availability; workshop + media rooms for 3 days
8.Donnas tool for video training
9.list of applications we want to use and providing materials for workshops
10. LIBRARY:
http://europeanfeministforum.org/spip.php?article215&lang=en
CONTENT
1.what people use/want
2.sharing communication tools
3.media and empowerment for women
4.feminist approaches to communication, organization, technology
harrassment and agression online – defence, autonomy, respect
5.feminist discourse/organizing and blogging (blogging contributing to organizing or fragmenting etc.)
6.making tech knowledge more available
- the ideas behind
1.empowerment
2.sharing
3.feminist modes of communication and technology
4.bringing more energy and dynamics to the feminist movement
5.fragmentation of feminist discourse
6.how can this forum be continued? how can the content be developed?
7.is FLOSS feminist? (1st day)
8.class and age
- topics to discuss
1.documentation
2.tickets
3.are we responsible for equipement?
4.combining info from different libraries – there are different libraries already
5.how long is the site to exist?
- TO BE DONE:
1.contacting the other affinity groups and Les Penelopes
2.list of applications (Paula, Aileen, Ewa, Ruxi, Marlous - layout basically everybody)
3.materials for workshops (Paula, Aileen, Ewa, Ruxi basically everybody)
4.asking the groups what they need and use? (Paula, Aileen, Ewa, Ruxi basically everybody)
5.Emailing tech collectives for materials
6.Comunicating with the EFF
7.Finding an ngo structure (Marlous)
8.contracts/ money arrangements, tickets (Anna)
9.communicating with the Penelopes (Anna)
10.adding the EFF site (Anna until now)
11.the Library (Aileen , Ewa)
12.contacting Donna about wiki password
13.wiki collaboration (Marlous) + Anna sending
14.sending a letter to friendly groups about the preparations (Anna)
15.newsletter updates on group's activities.
16.Wiki project making the existing knowledge more accessible (Anna & Aileen starting research)
17.Shaping the missionstatement
- FOR THE PLENARY
topic: tech availability+FLOSS as a feminist solution
we propose a speach for day 1. Ewa, Paula, Aileen are responsible for preparing the speach.
- FOR THE WORKSHOP
The same people take responsibility for the workshop and for the plenary.
- FOR THE MEDIA ROOM:
applications and materials for the media room;
posters with some instructions about how to use tech/ intros etc;
followup to the workshop;
having videos and interviews;
list of training areas available
edited my name and "intro" a bit --Ruxi 15:59, 28 December 2007
